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Collection item 1164

Jacob Lawrence

The Migration Series, Panel no. 25: They left their homes. Soon some communities were left almost empty. (between 1940 and 1941)

Collection item 1165

Jacob Lawrence

The Migration Series, Panel no. 27: Many men stayed behind until they could take their families north with them. (between 1940 and 1941)

Collection item 1168

Jacob Lawrence

The Migration Series, Panel no. 33: Letters from relatives in the North told of the better life there. (between 1940 and 1941)

Collection item 1169

Jacob Lawrence

The Migration Series, Panel no. 35: They left the South in great numbers. They arrived in the North in great numbers. (between 1940 and 1941)

Collection item 1171

Jacob Lawrence

The Migration Series, Panel no. 39: Railroad platforms were piled high with luggage. (between 1940 and 1941)

Collection item 1173

Jacob Lawrence

The Migration Series, Panel no. 43: In a few sections of the South leaders of both Black and White communities met to discuss ways of making the South a good place to live. (between 1940 and 1941)

Collection item 1174

Jacob Lawrence

The Migration Series, Panel no. 45: The migrants arrived in Pittsburgh, one of the great industrial centers of the North. (between 1940 and 1941)

Collection item 1176

Jacob Lawrence

The Migration Series, Panel no. 49: They found discrimination in the North. It was a different kind. (between 1940 and 1941)

Collection item 1178

Jacob Lawrence

The Migration Series, Panel no. 53: African American, long-time residents of northern cities met the migrants with aloofness and disdain. (between 1940 and 1941)

Collection item 1179

Jacob Lawrence

The Migration Series, Panel no. 55: The migrants, having moved suddenly into a crowded and unhealthy environment, soon contracted tuberculosis. The death rate rose. (between 1940 and 1941)

Collection item 1181

Jacob Lawrence

The Migration Series, Panel no. 59: In the North they had the freedom to vote. (between 1940 and 1941)

Collection item 1210

Seymour Lipton

Ancestor (1958)

Collection item 1218

Morris Louis

Number 182 (1961)

Collection item 1369

Amedeo Modigliani

Elena Povolozky (1917)

Collection item 1376

Piet Mondrian

Composition No. III (ca. 1921/repainted 1925)

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